...help.
I am asking for your help in order to help another EMT who for the last 3 years has worked EMS in the most dangerous city in America.
Barry Hunter is a EMT working full time for University Hospital EMS in the City of Camden, New Jersey.Barry came to us as a new EMT out of school and has been a great motivator and very inspirational. Always coming to work with a smile and a loud "Good Morning". He never turns down a chore and never complains when assigned one.
Barry is married with 3 children and has lived for the last few years in Pennsauken, NJ a neighboring community to Camden.A simple home with 3 bedrooms that he bought and fixed up so he could provide his family a good lige outside of Camden where crime is rampant and poverty flourishes.
On the morning of August 29th heavy rains flooded the south jersey area bringing an unusual 6 inches of rain in a short period of time to certain areas. Barry and his family were asleep when he heard his car alarm going off, he went to check and noticed water everywhere outside.Heavy rain flooded out his car and then started to flow into his basement of his house.Soon water began to rise and Barry got his family out and called 911. Barry's basement walls began to collapse and he fire officials and building officials made him leave his home where the red cross housed him in a motel.
Insurance officials arrived the next day and determined that Barry was only able to receive a mere 5,000 dollars becaus ethis was a flood and he did not have flood insurance on his home. (Barry did not live in a flood zone so he never got it)
As we speak Barry's children have been living with relatives because school has started and the kids need to get into class. Barry and his wife lived in the motel for afew weeks at their own expense but have now lived in someone else's home until they can find something else. In the meantime they still have to pay their mortage on ahome they cannot live in or even fix up because they have little money.
The employees of Camden City EMS are planning benefits for the near future. I am asking only to post a blog that we have started so other EMS can see and if they want donate to a Paypal account we have set up on the blog.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Chief Christopher S. Williams
University Hospital EMS-Camden Division
1000 South 10th
Camden City, New Jersey 08103
Business 856-757-4800
Cell 609-457-3374
I am working nights all week from 1800-0600
Chief Christopher S. Williams
University Hospital
Emergency Medical Services
Camden Division
1000 S. 10 th Street
Camden,N.J. 08103
856-757-4800
Fax 856-757-9760